Does that take it back to a negative again?
They have a couple of electric hotplates in the corner?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, probably their hotplates stopped working on the stove unit, they bought or had a pair of double hotplates and thoguht, stuff it, why spend $1k now ? Wait till either the stove or the microwave dies, then buy new stuff.
Which sounds very much like what many investors here have said they did to get by or ahead in life.
I mean it's "funny", in a way that reading about an investor driving around in a car that looks like it's falling apart, especially when they don't have to, is funny to some people.